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We’ve all heard the saying “don’t cut off your nose to spite your face,” but I couldn’t disagree more. Spite is a powerful, intoxicating emotion and sometimes sacrifices (such as your nose) must be made in order to achieve the revenge we so often desire. And that’s why I respect the hell out of these San Diego moving companies, who are all effectively saying, “Screw logical business sense, f*ck the Chargers.”
As someone who knows absolutely nothing about the moving industry, take the following with a grain of salt, but a professional football team has A LOT of stuff that they need moved, and therefore moving them would result in a pretty big payday. That’s why these 23 moving companies blackballing the Chargers is a G AF move. I imagine the moving industry is like a fraternity, so it’s refreshing to see a brotherhood stick together for the greater good.
via Bleacher Report:
HireAHelper’s head of sales and marketing Ryan Charles started the trend.
“We were just sitting there thinking about the physical move of the Chargers,” Charles said. “We were thinking we would not want to be a part of that, having been born and raised here and being a lifelong Chargers fan.”
After rejecting the Chargers’ job request, Charles asked other moving companies to join his protest, which he described as their “last line of defense.”
“The feedback was immediately positive,” Charles said. “I got chuckles, people were laughing, there were guys saying ‘I wouldn’t move them for X amount of dollars.'”
Per Togerson, they all turned down a payday potentially north of $100,000. Someone will eventually favor business over loyalty to a football franchise, but the foregone earnings demonstrate just how much the Chargers meant to San Diego.
As a New York guy through and through, I absolutely love seeing all the turmoil surrounding the Los Angeles NFL franchises A) because f*ck Roger Goodell & the NFL owners for their money-grubbing ways, and B). I’ve had to suffer through the Jets for over two decades, so it’s about time those sunburnt Cali-brahs see that having an NFL team in your city ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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